World History Final (Part 1: Gunpowder Empire, Americas, & Exploration)

Gunpowder Empires

Triangle Trade

It was a system of trade that connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas. It was for European goods to be traded for enslaved Africans in Africa, then transported to the Americas to work on plantations.

Middle Passage

A stage of the transatlantic slave trade where enslaved Africans were forcibly transported across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.

Trans-Slave Trade

A system where European powers forcibly removed millions of Africans from their homelands and transported across the Atlantic Ocean to be enslaved in the Americas.

“White Man’s Burden”

A poem written by Rudyard Kipling in 1899 in response to the United States annexation of the Philippines.

Olaudah Equiano

He was a well-known abolitionist who spoke out against the English slave trade. He worked to resettle freed slaves.

Columbian Exchange

It was a period of widespread exchange of plants, animals, diseases, cultures, and technologies between the Old World (Europe, Asia, & Africa) and the New World (the Americas) following the voyages of Christoper Columbus.

Aztec

A powerful civilization that flourished in central Mexico from about 1325-1521.

Inca

Maya

Conquistador

Mercantilism

Belgium

Controlled much of the modern-day country Democratic Republic of Congo.

Which civilization dominated modern-day Mexico before they met the Spanish?

Aztec Empire

Why did Spain sponsor a voyage West and not another European country?